PLATE XCIV. 
The Black Winged Hawk, 
Represented in this plate, is the bird alluded to in the defcription of the Ring-tailed Hawk 
in a former Number, to which the legs and wings of this bear a great refemblance. This bird is 
reduced, for the conveniency of the work, as the bird this was taken from meafured, from the point 
of the bill to the tip of the tail, feventeen inches, and round the breaft thirteen ; from the 
pinion of the wing to the end of the longeft feather, fourteen inches. This one of the moft difficult 
birds to approach that we have, though not very fwift in its flight. Is one of the moft deftruaive of 
the hawk kind, particularly among young partridges; from the beginning of the breeding feafon 
they are in continual fearch after them before they have taken wing. I have obferved them go regu- 
larly up one furrow and down the next, within a yard of the ground, until they have gone over the 
whole field, and then proceed to the next. They are feldom to be feen but at this feafon of the 
year ; for in the winter they retire to large woods and take up with more ordinary food, fuch 
as mice, frogs, &c. 
No. XXXII. 
